Character Summary: RENEPEP's

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 1401

>  Another one: If ghosts can't eat or drink, how did 
they
> administer the Mandrake Potion to Nearly Headless Nick?


They put it in an atomizer and sprayed it through him?

> Where do Poltergeists come from?

To quote one of my own theories posted earlier, poltergeists  (I
think 
it is literally 'noisy ghost' in German) are generally not associated 
with a visible manifestation, such as Peeves, but as uncontrolled 
'tossing things about' -perhaps even unconscious telekinesis, since 
poltergeists are primarily, if not entirely, associated with 
households containing children in the throes of adolescence.  I 
hypothesize that with so many generations of magically-talented 
adolescent wizards going through Hogwarts, that Peeves is a psychic 
amalgamation of all this into a sentient spirit form (which is why he 
is not really a ghost - he's more an elemental spirit).  Thus, while 
the answer to the question "Who was Casper before he became a ghost - 
was there a Casper the Friendly Dead Kid?",  the answer to the 
question "Who was Peeves before he died?" is that there was no 'live 
person' Peeves: Like Topsy (claims she did, anyway), he 'just
growed', 
albeit in non-material instead of human form.

-Brooks